Logo critique on Brands of the World
Ivan | Tue, 2011-10-18 19:18
Our critique section here on creativebits is really popular thanks to you folks giving great advice every day to all the guys posting their logos for feedback. I wanted to take this platform further, so we created a new Critique section on our sister site Brands of the World. Check out BotW Logo Critique.
In addition to the ability to upload your work I added a couple of special features that are designed to help the process more effective. When posting your work there is a special section for the brief, so designers can explain the objectives. Once you get feedback you can post the next version of your logo and it's all kept together as variations on the same job helping everyone see the progress.
When commenting on the posted work you can give ratings in different vectors, such as Idea, Symbol, Typography and Colors and these show up together with your comment. If the poster of the critique likes a comment, he can mark it as useful and this generates points for the commenter.
All the ratings are averaged and shown next to the logo so the critique poster will be able to see what needs improvement and what areas are generally liked.
After posting your work you can also invite member to give you comments if they allowed this option in their profiles.
Hope you will like it and please let me know any bugs you find. Cheers!
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Hi Ivan I think people will prefer to stay here, it feels more comfortable and "pub" , just need a pool game window, a youtube window and some virtual beverages, just kidding xD
The scales thing is interesting, you could test here too... lol no, I think we are old school... :P
Personally I didnt like the red & green combo... maybe only green (or grey) on scale is enough... the (un)like mark could appear just one of them (left aligned) after you had made the choice and no color is necessary too.
yes I'm brazilian xD
Sure, it's just a choice. Thanks for liking it here! :)
Yes, the red/green is too strong. Not sure how to fix it. Perhaps just keep it smaller like on YouTube, but even there it's disturbing. Will experiment with options.
And yes, whatever works there can be brought back here.
The thumbs-up / thumbs down is kind of absolute, maybe a 1-5 scale would be better.
Yes, but it would've been so complicated to have 4 vectors with 5 stars each.
I really like this idea Ivan. Lots! It's kind of an 'every mans' dribbble.com. Which reminds me, I gotta social network my way into that place somehow.
My first impression is that it's just too cramped. You need three rows, three columns, and plenty of space between so we can relax and see each. The boilerplate header and side bar have to go away - somehow.
If the aesthetics were brought up to where I can enjoy browsing the site, I'd certainly enjoy it very much.
Without my sense of direction, I don't know where I'd be.
I agree, it's in the works.
Also noticed that the link from Brands of the World to here is gone now. That's how I found this site in the first place, and can't be the only one. Why cut off traffic in your own family?
The creativebits link on the top is still there. I don't want to have two Critique links as it would be confusing.
Well it's been a week or so with no new submissions. And the week before that just had a few updates on older logos. A little redundancy seems a lot better than a dead site.